Motivational Quotes

Stupidity

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Stupidity

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

Rogers, Will

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Gauguin, Paul

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Franklin, Benjamin

The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.

Byron, Lord

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Stupidity gets up early; that is why events are accustomed to happening in the morning.

Kraus, Karl

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

11.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

12.

It was absolutely marvelous working for Wolfgang Pauli. You could ask him anything. There was no worry that he would think a particular question was stupid, since he thought all questions were stupid.

Weisskopf, Victor

13.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Frank Dane

14.

Man is the inventor of stupidity.

Gourmont, Remy De

15.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.

Fairbank, John King

17.

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

19.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

20.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

Brown, Sherrill

21.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

22.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

Hoffer, Eric

23.

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.

Harlan Ellison

24.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

25.

Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense.

Josh Lieb

26.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein

27.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Hazlitt, William

28.

Stupidity is a force unto itself.

Proverb, Latin

29.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Heinrich Heine

30.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Vizinczey, Stephen

31.

It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.

32.

It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?

Booth, William

33.

I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.

Banderas, Antonio

34.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

35.

Stupidity is the friend of evil.

36.

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

39.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.

Levi, Primo

40.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Scott Adams